Google fired another employee activist on Friday, the fifth termination of an employee engaged in workplace organizing in less than a month. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Kathryn Spiers, a security engineer who had worked for Google since February 2018, was fired on 13 December. A Google spokeswoman said the company had dismissed an employee who had “abused privileged access to modify an internal security tool”, which was “a serious violation”. The other four fired workers also filed similar charges, known as an unfair labor practice, with the labor board. “The changes that Google is making are making the company less transparent, and I think that is making Google less trustworthy and less secure.”

Source: The Guardian December 17, 2019 13:52 UTC